Hi, I have been teaching for 23 years. I was a fifth-grade Inclusion teacher for 7 years. Currently, I am teaching 6th and 7th grade Language Arts, and Social Studies in Brockton, MA.
This product is a versitle product to help students practice beginning HTML. The following activities are included: Unpluggled HTML PracticeVocabulary Match UpCode Match UpAdd the Tags PracticeDebugging the Code PracticeBonus: 3 Warm Ups
This product will give students practice using evidence to infer character traits. This contains games that can be used with pairs of students or whole class. You can also use it as a center.
Includes:
16 paragraph cards
16 trait cards
Center direction sheet
Game instructions
Answer sheet
Ideas
It will give you that extra practice that students often need in making inferences about characters.
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Deane Murphy
www.motivatingmiddleschool
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
BUNDLE: VOLUMES 1 & 2Emergency Sub Plans Bundle | ELA & Science | Grades 5–7Save time and money with this Emergency Sub Plans Bundle, featuring two full days of cross-curricular ELA and Science instruction for Grades 5–7. This bundle includes Volume 1 (Volcanoes) and Volume 2 (Extreme Weather)—both designed to provide rigorous, independent learning during emergency or planned teacher absences. 📘 Included in This Bundle: ✔ Volume 1: Volcanoes & Earth Processes ✔ Volume 2: Extreme Weat
Looking for a high-quality emergency sub plan that builds on real-world science while strengthening reading skills? This cross-curricular ELA and Science emergency sub plan for Grades 5–7 focuses on extreme weather and Earth systems using an engaging informational text paired with analytical questions and vocabulary development. ✅ What’s Included: ✔ Informational text: How Extreme Weather Affects Earth and Human Communities ✔ Science Spotlight text feature with analysis question ✔ BEST-s
Need a reliable, no-prep emergency sub plan that still keeps students learning? This cross-curricular ELA and Science emergency sub plan is designed for Grades 5–7 and uses a rigorous informational text about volcanoes to reinforce key reading skills and science concepts—all in a calm, independent format that works even on last-minute absences. ✅ What’s Included: ✔ Informational text: How Volcanoes Shape Earth and Human Life ✔ Analytical comprehension questions (ELA + Science) ✔ BEST-sty
Central Idea Escape Room | Match Evidence to Central Idea Make reviewing central idea and supporting evidence engaging with this interactive Reading Escape Room!Students work through a series of reading challenges to solve clues and unlock the final code. This activity encourages critical thinking, collaboration, and deeper analysis of informational texts. Perfect for grades 5–7, this escape room helps students strengthen essential reading comprehension skills while having fun. What Studen
Volume 1: FoundationsLooking for a way to teach coding concepts without computers? Debug This! HTML Coding Challenges – Volume 1: Foundations is a no-prep, unplugged coding resource that introduces students to HTML debugging through clear, student-friendly examples. In this foundational volume, students practice identifying and fixing common HTML errors, such as missing tags, incorrect closing tags, improper nesting, and missing attributes. Each activity encourages students to think logical
There is no way they're going to learn their homophones without practice! This product includes:
20 center cards
28 game cards
3 Answer cards,
2 story cards
with answer sheet
Poster with definitions of there,they're and their
You will be able to use this as two different centers and one game.
A little extra practice is so important for students to gain success in using there, they're and their.
Please be sure to follow me as I will be creating addition homophone sets that can be used with s
This product contains two fact and opinion sorts. One sort is about Peacocks and one is about the Rainforest. Each contains center directions and a two-column cart to sort the sentences onto. Your students will love to learn more about the rainforest and peacocks.
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4th - 6th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
This product contains an introduction to inferencing and supporting the inference with evidence from the text and schema. It also contains two practice sheets that have a graphic organizer for students to complete using the short paragraphs included.
It also contains a graphic organizer that can be used with any novel, text or passage.
This is a practice activity that can be used as a center, with pairs as a game or as a whole class game. the packet includes directions for three games. Also includes ideas for how to use the cards as a center. Complete with a direction sheet, a word bank and an answer sheet. There are 12 paragraph cards that convey different moods by giving the students clues to help them. It also includes the 12 mood word cards that students can use to match with the correct paragraph. Determining mood is a
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
Thanks for checking out my product. This is a poster set that contains and explains many text features. I use these posters to support the non-fiction unit that I teach. It contains, diagrams, labels, table of contents, glossary, index, fonts, titles, subheadings, and many more.
Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots Games and Practice Grade 8
This is a three part unit for prefixes, suffixes and roots for grade 8 students.
This product includes the following word parts:
Demo,
Equi/equa
Flux/flu
Peri
Gress
Log/logo/loc
Mal
Poly
Meta
Pan
Pend
Vert
Each unit has 4 word parts and includes word wall cards, introductory graphic organizers, practice sheets and a game for each of the three sets of word parts. Each game has directions, game cards and spinners. There are additional ide
Are your students struggling to understand theme? This is a theme sort activity set of three activities. First, students sort the attributes of theme and not a theme. Then students use the attributes to help them write the definition of theme. In the second sort activity students read passages and match the correct theme to each passage. Last, students read a set of strips and decide if they are main idea, theme, or topic. These three activities are sure to help students understand theme.
This is a set of three infographics. One for Whole Class Norms, one for Small Group Norms , and Individual Work Norms. The background is a book theme. This includes a PDF, and a link to the Canva template that can be edite.
Do you have students that always finish early? Do they disturb the class? Try these independent mini research projects. Print, laminate and you are ready to go. I put mine on a binder ring. Students can grab the task card they want and use the internet to research fasinating places such as Paris, Spain, Iceland and Austrailia and much more.Includes 26 Fascinating Places cards, which have guiding questions and work product choices. Then they can choose to make a report, brochure, poster, or digit
This product will help you teach and reinforce a variety of poetry devices: Hyperbole, alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, repetition and rhyme. This product includes 5 ideas for how it can be used in your classroom. Your students will become excited to examples from age appropriate poems. This product contains: Eight flashcards of terms Eight definition cards Eight larger word wall words 32 example cards 1 center direction poster An answer sheet An answer key 5
This is a 74 page file containing the English Language Arts Common Core Standards packet for grade 8. It contains the following items:
***Posters for each standard that may be posted in the classroom.
***Smaller versions of the standards that can be posted on desks or taped into an interactive notebook.
***A standard checklist to help you track which standards were taught.
*** A cover page to put in the front of a binder.
*** A label for the side of the binder (Sorry don't know what to call
This product has three units of prefixes, suffixes and roots. Each set includes an introduction graphic organizers to introduce the word parts. It also includes games and worksheets for each unit.
Set one includes:
exter/extra
sub
-ible/-able
dict
Set two includes:
frag/fract
gram/graph
-ion/-ition
multi
Set three includes:
non
re
scrib/script
tract
I hope you enjoy this product.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
Maze Runner Vocab 1-3
With the Movie Maze Runner coming out soon this is the perfect way to begin the novel. This product includes:
*Vocabulary words from chapters 1-3
* Word Wall cards
* Word cards will syn. and ant. included
*Graphic organizers to help teachers introduce the vocabulary word.
*A game board for a maze runner game that helps students practice this new vocabulary
*Question cards that can be used in multiple ways
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6th - 8th
Reading, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
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Experience
Hi, I have been teaching for 23 years. I was a fifth-grade Inclusion teacher for 7 years. Currently, I am teaching 6th and 7th grade Language Arts, and Social Studies in Brockton, MA.
Teaching style
I love teaching and try to be a very visual, hands-on teacher. Oh, I also love to have my students working in centers and using technology in my classroom. This gives a chance to really get to know my students and help them with their weaknesses.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My own education history
I am certified in Elementary Education grades 1-6 and Special Education Grades K-9. I attended Eastern Nazarene College for my Bachelor's of science and my Graduate Work.
Additional biographical information
I grew up in Glen Bernie, Maryland and moved to Massachusetts in 1990. I love being near to beaches and the ocean. I love in Brockton, Ma, with my husband and many wonderful pets.
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